Novelty card and device



April 30, 1929- M. w. WILLMORE NOVELTY CARD AND DEVICE Filed May 21, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet l A TTORNE Y.

April 30, 1929. M, w WILLMORE 1,710,793

NOVELTY CARD AND DEVICE Filed May 21, 192'? 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTORQ A TTORNE Y.

Patented Apr. 30, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MERTON w. WILLMORE, or cINCINNA'rI, 01110, ASSIGNOR TO THE emsoN ART corr- PANY, or CINCINNATI, 01110, ACORPORATION or 01110.

NOVELTY CARD AND DEVICE.

Application filed May 21,

moved around a substantially fixed center and which will disclose slogans, articles, poems or other inscriptions, on an area on a normally concealed immovable port-ion. It is further my object to make such devices from units consisting of a background board and a movable front portion in which the background has a slot through which the front member gradually disappears, as it is ad- 'mnced from one position to another, exposing the concealed inscriptions or articles.

The above and other objects which will be noted during the ensuing disclosure I accomplish by that certain arrangement and combination of parts of which I have shown a preferred embodiment.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of an art card having portions representing the dial of a clock, with the portion movable about a fixed center shown in fully closed position.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same card shown in Figure 1, with the movable member one quarter open showing several inscriptions on the background.

Figure 3 is a section along the lines 33 in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a front elevation of the movable member removed from the background supporting piece.

Figure 5 is a front elevation of a card which is decorated in a different manner, and in which a series of movable members representing portions of flowers are shown.

Ge mrally indicated at 1 is the background piece having a slot 2 extending across it. In this instance the slot extends radially from the center 3 about which the member 4 moves. The movable member, as shown in Figure 4, also has a slot 5 which allows a sector thereof to seat within the slot 2 of the background.

The center 3 about which the member 4 moves is usuall rovided with a rivet which extends through 0th the member 4 and the background member 1. The area which is concealed under the movable member is usually provided with inscriptions which refer to the purpose of the card, or which are in keeping with the decorations with which the card 1927. Serial No. 193,330.

is embellished. While I have shown only printed inscriptions on the background member, there may also be objects either secured flat against the background or disposed in pockets therein.

There are an infinite variety of decorative effects which ma be produced, such as coin safes, candy sue ers, radio logging devices and the like, and while I have shown only a clock card and a flower basket card, I do not wish to be limited to the particular decorations as shown. The use of a member movable about a central point which may be turned and which sector by sector slides with in a slot in the background is a mechanical arrangement which may be copied in a wide variety of forms.

The movable member or members each has a hub portion 6, partially cut out with a circular cut 7, the cut 7 forming a continuation of the slot 5. The end of the cut 7 acts as a stop to limit the movement of the movable member.

It is preferable to provide the member which is movable about a fixed center with a small extension or tongue 8, which will act as a stop to prevent the member from sliding through the slot in the background. The movable members may be cut out from a paper blank with one operation, the line of cut extended in all the members in a sub stantially similar manner. The background piece may also be cut out with one operation, and the problem of assemblin is very simple, all the labor re uired being t e insertion of the tongue 8 an the sector edge indicated at 9 in Figure 4 within a slot, and the insertion of the rivet 3 at the fixed center about which the members 4 are movable.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination with a slotted background piece, a member having a sector slidably mounted within the slot, said background piece having concealable portions bearing announcements and covered by said member in the fully exposed position thereof, and said member pivoted on said background piece, and said member provided with means for limiting the range of movement thereof within said slot.

2. In combination with a slotted backi ground piece, a, member having a sector slidably mounted Within the slot, said background piece having concealable portions bearing announcements and covered by said member in the fully exposed position thereof, and said member pivoted on said background piece, said member provided With means for limiting the range of n'ioveinent thereof within said slot, and the announcements arranged in it sequence and progressively 10 revealed by the movement of the member Within said slot.

MERTON V. WILLMORE. 

